ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,643, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Opentrons Labworks Inc. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
"Systems and methods for pipette robots" was invented by Andrew Sigler (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Taylor Schlaff Goodman (New York), Nicholas Pease Starno (Fort Pierce, Fla.) and Jonathan Preston Badal (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods applicable, for instance, to pipette robots. A pipette robot can perform one or more operations regarding deck calibration, one or more operations regarding pipette tip/probe calibration, one or more operations regarding pipette tip pick up, and/or one or more operations regarding tip ejection."...